The Seashell On The Mountaintop
A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
Samenvatting
Dubbed ' the founder of modern geology' by Stephen Jay Gould, the 17th century Danish scientist Nicolaus Steno was the first man to to suggest that the existence of fossils demanded a much longer history for the earth than the roughly six thousand years suggested by the Bible.